Fish Market/Survey Update

Walking back from Trinity Academy, the private school where we have been conducting the anemia surveys, I recalled a moment from when I was traveling in Kashmir, after seeing a young girl in a hijab playfully pull the long braid of her schoolmate. In Kashmir, I was moving through a fish market. At one stand where the dead fish seemed particularly interesting, I decided to take a picture. There were three vendors sitting together at the stand- all women- two Hindu and one Muslim. The Muslim woman wore a full, black hijab. Her eyes too were covered by a screen. She sat between the two Hindus, one who wore a bright green sari, and the other, a purple one. I took a picture of the stand and its vendors, but focused the camera on the fish. In the image, the fish are defined and sharp; and then there are the three colors blurring in the back.

Today my interpreter, Viji, and I finished the 70th survey at the private school. We have 30 more to complete our first sample size of 100 at this private school. I think next week we will begin at one of the public schools. We haven't received the Hemoglobin results yet from the lab. Most of these private school kids do have access to clean water and are fed, but unfortunately, many of them are in the habit of eating uncooked rice.